Examples of incongruity in a Sentence
she's an incongruity: an impeccably groomed woman who keeps a messy house
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Irony involves incongruity, while tragicomedy is about possible congruity—not mutual erasure but the capacity for the tragic and comic to coexist.
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Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026
Nobody is more alive to the comic incongruity than the man himself.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
During the talk, Brooks joked about the seeming incongruity of teaching courses in emotional realism under the shingle of a public policy school.
—Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026
There is an incongruity that may be best understood as an irony.
—Aaron Matz, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
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Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026
Nobody is more alive to the comic incongruity than the man himself.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
During the talk, Brooks joked about the seeming incongruity of teaching courses in emotional realism under the shingle of a public policy school.
—Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026
There is an incongruity that may be best understood as an irony.
—Aaron Matz, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for incongruity
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“Incongruity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incongruity. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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